🔀 Education-to-Employment Partnerships for Learner Outcomes. Life Ready Learning.
The education to employment space is increasingly shaped by partnerships across public and private sectors, bridging critical skill gaps. From K12 to workforce development, efforts are focused on equipping learners with the digital, technical, and green skills.
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The education-to-employment space is increasingly shaped by partnerships across the public and private sectors, bridging critical skill gaps. From K12 to workforce development, efforts are focused on equipping learners with digital, technical, and green skills. This week, Acer and Cisco announced initiatives targeting IT skill development in the UAE and Nigeria, while Hong Kong launched the Alliance of Universities of Applied Sciences to enhance vocational training, and Italy unveiled a renewable energy training center in Morocco. In addition to partnerships, there is an expanding landscape of digital solutions supporting learners all the way through learning journey, with an emerging category of 'Life Skills Learning' to support the development of key skills career and life skills.
These efforts highlight a global push for specialized education for economic resilience and we can expect continued expansion of programs that align education with workforce needs, particularly in STEM, IT, and green sectors, along with specific solutions for 'Life Ready Skills'.
💪 Power Moves
👾 Meta partnered with universities in the US and UK to develop VR learning experiences. Imperial College London, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Leeds are some of the partner universities thus far.
🤖 Pearson launched GSE Job Profiles, a tool for HR professionals to set English language requirements for jobs. It uses data from Pearson's Global Scale of English to benchmark candidates' skills and identify gaps.
💰 The Inter-American Development Bank approved a $300M loan to improve early literacy in Argentina. The loan will fund teacher training, educational resources, and infrastructure upgrades.
💰 Deals of the Week
🩺 Stepful, an AI-powered health training platform in the US, raised $31.5M to expand its B2B offering and continue growing its health system partnerships.
📱 Snap! Mobile, a US-based fundraising platform for schools, received $23M to expand and help schools raise essential funds for high school athletics and other extracurricular activities.
🔢 Bhanzu, an Indian K12 Math AI-powered learning platform, secured $16.5M to expand its mission to eliminate math anxiety and build learner confidence through small, group sessions.
🌐 Academic Labs, a Singaporean Web 3-based tech training firm, obtained $3.2M to enhance its platform and expand its crypto-based gamified learning options.
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